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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"input subsidy"”.
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Malawi Farm Input Subsidy Programme - impact on income of smallholder farmers
… develop strategies and policies such as the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP), whose main aim is to increase household incomes and reduce food insecurity and ultimately reduce poverty. It is nine years since the introduction of FISP but its results remain mixed. Using the 2009/10 Integrated …
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Effects of Subsidized inputs on legume production in Zambia
… of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) introduced an input subsidy program aimed at making inorganic fertilizers and improved maize seed cheaply available to the target households. However, these interventions are targeted at maize only, to the exclusion of all other crops. There is thus a general …
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Drivers of adoption and impacts of smallholder climate-resilient agricultural technologies
… of the effects of a country-wide market-smart input subsidy program on the purchase and use of modern agricultural inputs, crop diversification, farm productivity, income generation, food security, the distance to agro-dealers and program delivery timing, by leveraging a recent policy change in …
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Impacts of Father Input Support Programme ob beneficiaries: The case of Gwembe District
… Government of Zambia has been funding a farmer input subsidy program that consumes a very large part of the resources allocated to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock. This survey examines if the program is producing commensurate impacts on maize production by the farmers who benefit from …
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Essays on Malawian agriculture: Micro-level welfare impacts of agricultural productivity; profitability of fertilizer use; and targeting of fertilizer subsidy programs
… guidance for the targeting of Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP) by estimating the difference in inorganic fertilizer use efficiency and crowing out of commercial fertilizer by subsidized fertilizer between poor and non-poor households. The difference in inorganic fertilizer use …
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Climate-change adaptation among Smallholder farmers in zambia
… on climate adaptation, the effectiveness of input support programme reforms on influencing farmer behaviour and the relevance of new climate smart agricultural technologies in the climate adaptation agenda. The thesis also proposes measures of household variables, such as education and …
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The impact of farm input subsidies on economic efficiency of maize production in Malawi
The study analyzed the impact of the farm input subsidy programme (FISP) on the technical, allocative and economic efficiency and determining factors associated with these efficiencies of 12, 271 smallholder maize farmers from 2010 IHS3 dataset in Malawi. Descriptive statistics, stochastic frontier …